"Go back through every team he's played on, talked to people involved - or just study the results - and it doesn't matter whether it was high school, college, U.S. development and national teams, and in the NBA - and you see a pattern of him impacting winning".

The NBA world has been focused on the Cleveland Cavaliers for the past week following Kyrie Irving's trade request, but there's more going on than just Irving's unhappiness.

A month removed from the NBA Finals, the Cavs have changed GMs and could be on the verge of trading their All-Star point guard.

James has been too good and there is too much talent on the Cavaliers to assume their immediate downfall. With the draft's top pick, Cleveland selects Irving, who average 17.5 points and 4.3 assists in 11 games at Duke in the lone season of his college career. Butler and George are demonstrably better players, but they aren't almost as big of stars. This is the pick the Suns acquired from the Miami Heat a few years ago and taking into account how weak the East is, the Heat will most likely make the playoffs, which means the Cavaliers would not get a lottery pick. He's been showing why he's the No. 1 pick in the draft.

In the same article, Irving was asked about taking over as the Cavs" new franchise player and stated: "I wasn't really anxious about filling LeBron's shoes or filling that void.

The other nugget of information that Lloyd offers there is that Irving isn't in contact with the team right now.

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